Making of Have I Got News For YUSU: Difference between revisions

Anyone in YSTV can suggest programme ideas to the Production Director and most things, within reason, can usually be made.  The process from idea to broadcast changes from programme to programme, due to different complexities required for different productions.  What follows describes the chain of events that led to our satirical news quiz spoof Have I Got News For YUSU being made earlier this year.

During production meetings for our Elections 2003 programme, co-producer Cally Nixon announces that she is seeking to pre-record a quiz featuring the outgoing sabbatical officers, to be played out on Election Night during a lull in the results and to facilitate a crew change.  Cogs start whirring…we’ve done a Never Mind The Buzzcocks spoof in the past, all the recent controversy surrounding Have I Got News For You means that the time has come to do our very own version of that.  Have I Got News For YUSU here we come. (2008 edit - this was a couple of months after Angue Deayton was sacked from HIGNFY)

A very basic draft version of the script is circulated amongst other members of YSTV, asking for comments or additions.  Brains are racked and the script is eventually full.  Also around this time Station Director [[Kevin Bowman|Kevin]] secures the participation of four of the six sabbatical officers, and a date for recording is set.  Crew sheets are put on the notice board.  University Radio York presenter [[James Gallagher]] is suggested for the presenter’s job, and he quickly agrees.  The clock is ticking…

Have I Got News For You has a fairly simple set, involving red board covered in headlines.  Luckily we had three spare red set boards, and the producer had a huge stack of old copies of The Guardian in his bedroom, so he and other members of the crew set to finding suitable headlines and pictures to stick to the boards.  The desk will be the “coffee bar” that has been produced for interview on Elections 2003.